Pokémon Brick Bronze Wikia:Vandalism Combat Policies

Vandalism is the act of messing up articles of a Wiki. It is a major issue that every Wiki on the Internet, including the famous Wikipedia, suffers and cannot escape from. There are always notorious users who like wrecking stuff with no reason at all. In addition to the Guidelines, we also have a full set of policies for all users to follow, as well as different measures for our Administration team to combat vandalism effectively.

Principle
The principle is: ZERO tolerance on vandalism. All kinds of vandalism are strictly forbidden, and edits which involve any kind of vandalism must be instantly reverted.

Inserting nonsense, gibberish, foul language or obviously inappropriate content, distorting and spamming on articles, creation of spam pages, as well as large-scale removal of contents without legitimate reasons, are some of the many actions considered malicious.

Measures
All users can use the "Undo" function on the edit history of articles to revert any blatant vandalism edits. If the case is serious, you may also contact Administrators for them to step in. As many anonymous users committed vandalism before, all contributors must now log in or register before contributing.

Rollback
"Rollback" is a tool enabled to all Bureaucrats, Administrators and Content Moderators. This allows quicker reverting of vandalism by instantly reverting all consecutive edits from a user on a page.

Article Protection
This is the action of locking down articles to prevent certain user groups to edit, rename or create them, depending on the protection status. All members on or above Content Moderator rank have the power to deploy protection. There are 2 kinds of protection levels:
 * Semi-protection: Prevents newcomers from modifying the protected pages. Auto-confirmed users are not affected. This is widely used when a page is repeatedly vandalized by many newcomers.
 * Full Protection: Prevents anyone other than Content Moderators and higher ranks to modify the locked pages. Commonly used to prevent articles of future locations being created, as well as when vandalism or edit wars involving Auto-confirmed users break out. Certain important pages such as homepage and guidelines are also locked.

Suspension
If a user repeatedly vandalizes articles, causing widespread damage to the PBB Wikia, Bureaucrats or Administrators may suspend the user's rights of editing.

Before actually issuing a suspension of editing powers, a warning message is usually sent first to the message wall of the user who committed malicious edits from an Administrator or a Content Moderator. Discussion Moderators may also send warnings if they find a user constantly violates the discussion rules on article comments or forum threads. Users who continue to vandalize after the warning is posted will be banned for a couple of weeks. Users who committed serious vandalism, such as inserting foul languages into a large portion of the page, or tearing many articles apart in quick succession, will be banned as well without prior warning. After the first timed suspension expires, if the user vandalizes again, he or she will receive an extended suspension for a month or even longer. In very extreme cases, such that we are very sure the user will never stop his or her acts of damaging the Wikia, we may consider permanently exiling the user. This means not only a ban without any expiry date, but also a report to the Community Central of Fandom.